« I can imagine continue »

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After the ascent, he is before planning next season – right? In the case of Friedhelm Funkel at 1. FC Köln, it is not yet clear. The 71 -year -old coach routine opened openly for additional cooperation in the coming season after winning the second division championship, in which he had led a club to the German (Site notre bureau spécialisé) house for the seventh time.

« The question is not very easy to answer. Everyone knows how to stand with this club, » said Funkel at the press conference after 4-0 against the aspirant at the co-aspirant 1. FC Kaiserslautern. « I am a coach here for the third time. It was very fun. We stayed so that we were sitting after the last day and we think of any constellations. »

These conversations should take place quickly, Funkel is « open to everything. But we have to discover in conversations what the club wants and how he imagines everything. I can imagine continue. « 

Funkel is sure to support the team. Defender Dominique Heintz declared in the microphone stadium « Sky » about the coach, who was only set before the 33rd match: « Friedhelm put us perfectly. This calm, which he brings. It is simply crazy. It would not bother me if he stays with us for another year. » From the last two games, Funkel won two victories with FC and also exceeded the HSV on the way to the title. The red pants, which increased a week ago, lost 2: 3 to Fürth on Sunday.

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According to the « Bild », Funkel can imagine another year as a chief coach if, as a team boss, he had to work with a large staff. It could take a lot from his daily work. « I have incredibly good coaches staff, so that you do not have to do as much as 20 or 25 years ago. I was physically very well, » he told « Sky » himself.

If Funkel continues in Cologne, he would become the fourth oldest coach in the history of Bundesliga on the first day at the age of 71. Only Jupp Heynckes were even older at the age of 73 at FC Bayern, Otto Rehhagel with 73 at Hertha BSC 2012 and Fred Schulz, died in 1990.